The U.S. allies hoped meeting senior Trump officials would diffuse tensions and tough talk on Greenland. It didn't.
Fifteen years ago, Daniel Ek broke into America's digital-content wars with his streaming music start-up, Spotify, which has turned into a publicly traded company with a $110 billion market value. Now he and his business partner, the Swedish entrepreneur Hjalmar Nilsonne, aim to crack a higher-stakes consumer market: American health care.
DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that President Donald Trump "has complained to aides repeatedly" in recent weeks about his Attorney General Pam Bondi being "weak" and "ineffective" at pursuing his agenda. read more
President Donald Trump and his top aides' preferred path to the U.S. taking ownership of Greenland is incentivizing people there to vote in a referendum to align with the United States, according to two people familiar with his thinking and granted anonymity to speak candidly.
fwiw ...
What is CSAM?
rainn.org
... Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is not "child pornography."
It's evidence of child sexual abuse -- and it's a crime to create, distribute, or possess. CSAM includes both real and synthetic content, such as images created with artificial intelligence tools. ...
@#13 ... Donald Trump intends to kill people who live in Minnesota. ...
Considering that the great people of Minnesota have not voted in favor of Pres trump in 2016, 2020,or 2024, he seems to have a grudge against the state.
A retribution-style grudge.
To wit ...
Minnesota
www.270towin.com
... Minnesota, cobbled together from land that was part of the original United States, land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase and land acquired from Great Britain in 1818, joined the Union in May, 1858.
Minnesota voted exclusively Republican from 1860 through the onset of the Great Depression, except for 1912 when it sided with Progressive candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt. From 1932 onward, the state has primarily voted Democratic, last voting Republican during Nixon's landslide victory in 1972.
Outside of Washington, D.C., it is the longest Democratic streak in the country. In 1984, Minnesotans gave homegrown Senator Mondale his only state in the lopsided loss to Ronald Reagan. In 2024, Kamala Harris won by 4% over Donald Trump.
Minnesota has had 10 electoral votes since the 1964 election. It was projected to lose one after the 2020 Census, but edged out New York for the 435th congressional district.
Recent Presidential Elections
Year Dem% Rep%
2024 50.9% 46.7%
2020 52.4% 45.3%
2016 46.4% 44.9%
...
Yet Pres trump said in a recent press conference that he won Minnesota those three years.
Go figure.
... The founder of ICE List said the website was overwhelmed by malicious web traffic originating in Russia after the Beast reported that a huge cache of personal IDs had been leaked to the site by an alleged Department of Homeland Security whistleblower.
What is Pres Trump going to do about this egregious attack upon an American website?
There's this ...
Kristi Noem pledged to boost the nation's cybersecurity. She gutted it instead. (October 2025)
www.politico.com
... Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem promised to prioritize a "comprehensive, whole-of-government approach to cybersecurity."
But over the last nine months, a key cybersecurity agency under Noem's command has had its staffing slashed by more than a third, axed funding for election security programs and scaled back its support to state and local governments to protect against cyber threats. ...
Where Were You Born?' ICE Conducting Show-Me-Your-Papers Stops in Minnesota Neighborhoods
www.commondreams.org
... "I was scared. I was devastated," said a Somali-American citizen who was accosted by ICE as part of what the agent called a "citizen check." No such thing exists in American law. ...
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents deployed to Minnesota are pulling many nonwhite residents aside and asking them to prove their citizenship, according to several reports and multiple videos posted to social media this week amid the Trump administration's surge of immigration agents to Minneapolis.
There is no federal law requiring US citizens to carry proof of their citizenship, and immigration agents are barred from carrying out indiscriminate searches unless they have reasonable suspicion to believe that someone is in the country without authorization. ...
@#3 ... He thinks he owns the whole planet. ...
... or is entitled to own the Western Hemisphere, if you can believe the National Security Strategy document he recently issued.
Regarding Greenland, imo, Pres trump's saber-rattling about security is just a cover for his true goal ...
The mineral deposits of Greenland.
Similar to your excellent recent comment about fentanyl being little more than Pres Trump's gateway drug to Venezuelan oil.
The mineral deposits in Greenland are Pres Trump's gateway drug to annexing Greenland.
(OK, that analogy doesn't work as well as your excellent comment :(, but I suspect you get what I am saying ...)